Implants: Page 25

New implant coating reduces bacterial growth, adhesion

By Theresa Pablos

Silver and hydroxyapatite nanoparticles may be the key to reducing the implant failure rate. A new, biocompatible implant coated with the two materials effectively prevented biofilm growth and adhesion in a recent study.

April 20, 2017

Saliva peptide may help implant integration

By Theresa Pablos

A peptide found in saliva may be the key to helping implants integrate with surrounding cells faster. Researchers found that oral cavity cells exposed to this specific peptide spread and adhered to titanium significantly better than those without it.

April 9, 2017

Legal Cases: Mandibular fracture after implant placement

By William S. Spiegel and Marc R. Leffler, DDS

You use a health history form with every patient. You discuss this form and their health with them and receive their agreement, But, as William S. Spiegel and Dr. Marc R. Leffler write in their latest Legal Cases series, it is impossible to get every condition onto a form. Learn what happened to a new-to-practice prosthodontist who placed implants in a 68-year-old patient.

April 3, 2017

New materials designed to fight pathogens, reduce caries

By Lori Roniger

The development of secondary caries and bacterial acid formation leads to many dental restoration failures. However, researchers are concocting clever new polymer-based dental materials to combat such problems, as discussed at the recent International Association for Dental Research (IADR) meeting.

March 29, 2017

Product highlights from IDS 2017: Part 1

By Kevin Henry

COLOGNE, GERMANY - Dental journalist Kevin Henry attended the 2017 International Dental Show (IDS) in Cologne, Germany, and saw the plethora of amazing new technologies that were introduced. He offers a roundup of these introductions in the first of a two-part exclusive series for DrBicuspid.com.

March 26, 2017

New product: RecordLinc debuts case management module

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

RecordLinc has released a new implant case management module.

March 19, 2017

Study: Which implant sizes are more likely to fail?

By Tony Edwards

When it comes to dental implants, are those considered longer or shorter more likely to fail? Is an implant 3.8 mm in diameter less likely to fail than a 6.0-mm implant? The largest study on implant failure to date has answers.

March 12, 2017

3Shape debuts products at Chicago Midwinter 2017

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

3Shape has introduced new software for digital implant scanning and new lab scanners.

February 26, 2017

Case report: Using a laser to lengthen an open crown

By Joshua Weintraub, DDS

In this case, a 73-year-old woman needed to decide between an implant that would replace tooth #4 or a fixed partial bridge for teeth #3 and #5 with a pontic #4. The patient's general dentist used a laser for the procedure rather than a scalpel and handpiece with burs, reducing the treatment time, as Dr. Joshua Weintraub describes in this report.

February 23, 2017

3Shape software integrates with Straumann implants

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

3Shape has added the Straumann implant bar and bridge libraries to its Dental System software.

February 21, 2017

Can you trust implant dentistry consensus guidelines?

By Lori Roniger

Consensus guidelines help dentists make good clinical decisions and improve patient safety, but a new study has found that the quality of these guidelines in major implant dentistry journals is mediocre. Methodological improvements are needed to ensure that guidelines adhere to high, transparent standards, the authors noted.

February 12, 2017

Sustained antimicrobial-release implant curbs biofilms

By Lori Roniger

What if you could prevent infectious biofilms on your patient's implants? Researchers have shown in the laboratory that sustained chlorhexidine release through a porous titanium-silica material prevented and eradicated biofilm formation, which may lead to a new option for preventing implant infections.

February 6, 2017

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